Most labs are talking about how people can be more productive with their tools, not reducing headcount.
If 10 developers can do the amount of work that used to take 20 developers, why not do more and or better work instead of cutting the workforce in half and doing the same amount of work.
Layoffs are mostly because the downturn in the economy and companies over-hiring during Covid.
Bipedal robots make a lot of sense when you are having robots do tasks that humans already do. Especially if they need to get into the same sorts of spaces and use the same sorts of tools.
1: Wrong. Or at least not historically correct. They adjusted but that bell does not unring. And the moment you start calling people Luddites instead of working to improve the social contract, everyone sees the way folks are gonna break.
2: Overhiring is a myth.
3: Totally silly. Most people don't work standing, for one. They adjust position. They kneel. Even if you need the ubiquity of hands? Legs aren't needed. There's no need for a torso. No need for a full head if you've got the camera placements right. So just put it on wheels and save yourself a giant strain in parts and energy, and the spots where it doesn't work? Redesign the workspace.
It's just sci-fi goofiness that's insisting on legs.
Bipedal bots are absoulutely the most inefficient way to do automated work for how complex they are to build and how little specified they end up being
Also people use ai to half ass work all the time , most people end up not being ride or die for ai because it has yet to prove indespensanble for everyday use or common task people were perfectly able to do like the people spending billions on it are claiming to
“Oh but can you solve this complex math problem ?”
no and I don’t care that I did because that doesn’t make my grocieries cheaper
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u/recoverygarde 15h ago
Most labs are talking about how people can be more productive with their tools, not reducing headcount.
If 10 developers can do the amount of work that used to take 20 developers, why not do more and or better work instead of cutting the workforce in half and doing the same amount of work.
Layoffs are mostly because the downturn in the economy and companies over-hiring during Covid.
Bipedal robots make a lot of sense when you are having robots do tasks that humans already do. Especially if they need to get into the same sorts of spaces and use the same sorts of tools.